Captain Furtah wrote:I'm a huge tigers fan, but this is getting downright ridiculous.

Cabrera is one of the top 5 hitters in baseball (and they are paying him as such). He has been going through the season without much fanfare, that is until he moved up in the order and starting hitting like he Always has throughout his career, and Detroit started winning baseball games!

I have liked Leyland, but he needs to stop playing favorites and babying players. I'm not just saying this because they've struggled to this point. The best hitter on the team is Cabrera, bat him 3rd and build your team/lineup around him.

I hope he is doing this to showcase Thames so we can trade him for a solid pitcher at the deadline...

F trading Thames. We should move Renteria to Toronto (looking for SS) for Burnett. Then we can start Santiago there. I'd rather do that.

If you are Toronto, you may just fall for that trade. Renteria's contract is done at the end of the year so they would get rid of Burnett's money. As much as I think Renteria will start to hit, he will never be worth what he is being paid.

Part of Leyland's motivation was mentioned during today's game. Apparently he doesn't like the fact that Cabrera is slow on the basepaths, and that is why they hit him behind Maggs instead of front of him. I find this to be kind of odd considering the Tigers absolutely never steal. Any more thoughts on this?

AquaMan2342 wrote:Part of Leyland's motivation was mentioned during today's game. Apparently he doesn't like the fact that Cabrera is slow on the basepaths, and that is why they hit him behind Maggs instead of front of him. I find this to be kind of odd considering the Tigers absolutely never steal. Any more thoughts on this?

Yeah Leyland has talked about this a few times before and usually stats that as his reasoning. He seems to think that if Mags were on first and Miggy was to get an extra base hit Mags would be likely to score, whereas Miggy probably wouldn't score from first on an extra base hit. Solid reasoning, but it's irrelevant when Miggy isn't even getting hits behind him.

These two are so key to the Tigers offense that I have no idea why Leyland isn't willing to at least try something different when what they're doing now clearly isn't ideal. Honestly, what do they have to lose by giving it a shot for a week or two??

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Captain Furtah wrote:I'm a huge tigers fan, but this is getting downright ridiculous.

Cabrera is one of the top 5 hitters in baseball (and they are paying him as such). He has been going through the season without much fanfare, that is until he moved up in the order and starting hitting like he Always has throughout his career, and Detroit started winning baseball games!

I have liked Leyland, but he needs to stop playing favorites and babying players. I'm not just saying this because they've struggled to this point. The best hitter on the team is Cabrera, bat him 3rd and build your team/lineup around him.

I hope he is doing this to showcase Thames so we can trade him for a solid pitcher at the deadline...

F trading Thames. We should move Renteria to Toronto (looking for SS) for Burnett. Then we can start Santiago there. I'd rather do that.

Why would Toronto trade for a terrible 33 year old shortstop? They already have like 3 of those.

Captain Furtah wrote:I'm a huge tigers fan, but this is getting downright ridiculous.

Cabrera is one of the top 5 hitters in baseball (and they are paying him as such). He has been going through the season without much fanfare, that is until he moved up in the order and starting hitting like he Always has throughout his career, and Detroit started winning baseball games!

I have liked Leyland, but he needs to stop playing favorites and babying players. I'm not just saying this because they've struggled to this point. The best hitter on the team is Cabrera, bat him 3rd and build your team/lineup around him.

I hope he is doing this to showcase Thames so we can trade him for a solid pitcher at the deadline...

F trading Thames. We should move Renteria to Toronto (looking for SS) for Burnett. Then we can start Santiago there. I'd rather do that.

If you are Toronto, you may just fall for that trade. Renteria's contract is done at the end of the year so they would get rid of Burnett's money. As much as I think Renteria will start to hit, he will never be worth what he is being paid.

The only reason they are considering trading AJ Burnett is because he's going to opt out of his contract at the end of the season (he can very easily get better than 2 years/24 million in FA). Paying him 12 million a season over the next 2 years isn't exactly a problem for them. By simply keeping him and allowing him to become a FA, they'll get 2 high draft picks, so any offer will have to be as good as that.

Captain Furtah wrote:I'm a huge tigers fan, but this is getting downright ridiculous.

Cabrera is one of the top 5 hitters in baseball (and they are paying him as such). He has been going through the season without much fanfare, that is until he moved up in the order and starting hitting like he Always has throughout his career, and Detroit started winning baseball games!

I have liked Leyland, but he needs to stop playing favorites and babying players. I'm not just saying this because they've struggled to this point. The best hitter on the team is Cabrera, bat him 3rd and build your team/lineup around him.

I hope he is doing this to showcase Thames so we can trade him for a solid pitcher at the deadline...

F trading Thames. We should move Renteria to Toronto (looking for SS) for Burnett. Then we can start Santiago there. I'd rather do that.

Why would Toronto trade for a terrible 33 year old shortstop? They already have like 3 of those.